Bozen

A record of my experiences and adventures playing football in a far away and sometimes very foreign land.

... in the list of the best restaurants) and three days sick in bed in Ferrara. Went by train (Stuttgart - Munich - Rosenheim - Kufstein - Innsbruck - Brenner - Brixen - Bozen - Verona - Bologna), interesting trip and a good alternative to a flight.

... immer wieder mal, um mich mit den letzten verbleibenden Früchten zu verköstigen. Als ich am Abend schliesslich die Stadt Bozen erreiche, suche ich gar nicht erst lange nach einem versteckten Plätzchen für mein Zelt, sondern quartiere mich gleich auf ...

Back in Bolzano May 19th-22nd   The train ride back from Milano was long and excruciating and I was flat broke.  I put the train ticket on the credit card and longed for pay day.  I slept and wrote away the four hour trip back to Bolzano ...

... myself lunching in Italy over the local speciality of Grilled Bratwurst and mustard, with a stein of locally brewed unfiltered beer.  Bozen is stunning. I must have lived in the Alps in a former life. I could run about the fields of alpine flowers ...

The road from Sondria to Bozen starts with a stretch called the Aprica Way and continues as the Via Nazionale we think. Take the last stretch via Fondo and you have an unbroken several hours of motorcycling bliss. The day we rode along it was a public ...

March 19th I thought we were over the hump here in the frozen Bozen.  I had even started calling it the thawing Bozen as spring sun shined upon us the last 10 days.  But today was a cold day and a frigid night.  I rode my bike to ...

... my $100 USD for Euros and then buy minutes for my cell phone, get some food, and then check out the local Free University of Bozen.  Banks are all over Bolzano, by the time I had reached the stadium (maybe a 30 minute walk) on the way into town, I ...

Leaving Verona early we headed up to Alto Adige, our destination Bolzano or Bozen in German. As always with Italian trains it was running late. Only five minutes though, until we got up and went out into the freezing cold that it was announced that it ...

... in the list of the best restaurants) and three days sick in bed in Ferrara. Went by train (Stuttgart - Munich - Rosenheim - Kufstein - Innsbruck - Brenner - Brixen - Bozen - Verona - Bologna), interesting trip and a good alternative to a ...

... is popular in Bolzano, I was a bit worried that maybe, my datefrom Monday night would be there. But thankfully she wasn't.   It took me a bit longer than anticipated, but I have finallymanaged to meet a few girls up here in the Bozen.  And May is gone. ...

... he was off work, then I sat in the park, the early afternoon rays filtering through the trees, very happy to be in the thawing Bozen. I must add this now though I meant to get in a blog on March first.  During my rough spot at the end of February ...

... left the whole team laughing.  We finished the warm up and then Tisma had us running sprints.  It was a cold overcast morning in the Bozen.  We ran 105, 85, 65, 45, 25-yard sprints walking back each time.  By the end of it I think just ...

... on clothes and was out the door.  I kept my jacket off, speed walking toward the stadium, and thanking the frozen Bozen's mountain temperatures for fending of the post shower sweat (You know when you are sweating when you get into the shower, then ...

... none of them have made it home yet. The massive wird count is also indicative of how much down time I have here in the Bozen. Saturday I woke up with 25 minutes to get on the stadium.  I threw on workout gear, shoveled some cold spaghetti from ...

... 's so uplifting, much more than when you just get off a plane and it's suddenly hot. Anyway, we drove through Sued Tirol, past Bozen and into the valley just before Garda See. Sued Tirol still has an Austrian / South German feel to it but as soon as ...

... 'sst mich die Anstrengungen der letzten Tage noch doppelt spüren. Ich lege seit über zehn Tagen oder seit meinem Aufenthalt in Bozen täglich zwischen 70 und 130 km zurück und besonders die vergangenen Tage im Regen sind jeweils lange und zäh ...